The English version of the eleventh e-bulletin of the Observatory of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men, has been uploaded on its website: http://www.isotita.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Observatory-11th-e-bulletin-Womens-part-time-employment.pdf . It deals with the thematic area of Women and Economy and statistical data is presented for the following […]
The photo exhibition “The Power of Empathy” will be inaugurated during the Second International conference on Youth Volunteering and Dialogue on 25 September 2017. This photo exhibition is a tribute to the power of empathy and solidarity felt and expressed by young people. Its photographs and stories were selected from the response to the global […]
The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, has widely publicized in our country the recent FEMM report on women’s economic empowerment in the private and public sectors in the EU (European Parliament, Plenary Sitting, Strasbourg, September 2017): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A8-2017-0271+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN . First of all, a very […]
The European Parliament considers that women’s economic participation and empowerment are key for strengthening their fundamental rights, enabling them to reach economic independence, to exert influence in society and to have control over their lives, while also breaking the glass ceilings preventing them from being treated equally to men in working life; encourages, therefore, the […]
The English version of the tenth e-bulletin of the Observatory of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men, has been uploaded on its website: http://www.isotita.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Observatory-10th-e-bulletin-ICT.pdf . It deals with the thematic area of Women’s Education and Training and statistical data is presented for […]
The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, has widely pubicized in our country the results of the recent meeting of the High Level Group on gender mainstreaming, which was successfully organized by the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (Tallinn, […]
The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, has already uploaded both on the Greek and the English pages of its website on the internet and the facebook the main findings and messages of the most recent UNESCO’s report on girls’ and women’s education […]
Girls and women are significantly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions worldwide, a divide rooted in girls’ earliest days of socialisation and schooling. “Science is a vocation that begins with a dream, with an aspiration. Today, too many girls are not encouraged to follow this dream,” said UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in her opening remarks […]
The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, has already uploaded both on the Greek and the English pages of its website on the internet and the facebook the promotional material on the message of the World Breastfeeding Weeek 2017. Despite the fact that […]
World Breastfeeding Week is coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), a global network of individuals and organisations concerned with the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding worldwide based on the Innocenti Declarations, the Ten Links for Nurturing the Future and the WHO/UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding. WABA’s core partners are the Academy of Breastfeeding […]
A. In Greece, the National Action Plan on Gender Equality 2016-2020, which constitutes an initiative taken by the General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men, comprises the following six policy areas with concrete objectives and distinctive synergies with competent stakeholders, covering in that way all fields […]
The comprehensive contribution of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, on women and the media in the digital era is divided into eight chapters: a) National Action Plan on Gender Equality 2016-2020 b) synergy between the GSGE and the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation […]
2-5-2017: policies and actions in favour of rural women and girls in Greece http://eurogender.eige.europa.eu/posts/policies-and-actions-greek-general-secretariat-gender-equality-improvement-situation-women-and 24-5-2017: data on the situation of women in Greece http://eurogender.eige.europa.eu/posts/comprehensive-presentation-policy-greek-general-secretariat-gender-equality-gender-segregated 2-6-2017: conference on the EIGE work lointly organized by the GSGE and the EIGE (Athens, 8/6/2017) http://eurogender.eige.europa.eu/posts/greek-general-secretariat-gender-equality-and-eige-are-jointly-organizing-conference-work-eige 13-6-2017: comprehensive report on the successful completion of the EIGE working visit in Greece with the GSGE support (Athens, […]
The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, has already uploaded both on the Greek and the English pages of its website on the internet and the facebook the recent Report of the UN Secretary-General on progress towards sustainable development (documentation for the HLPF 2017); unavoidably, […]
Τhe European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has launched the present call for tender in order to identify contractors for the provision of research and analysis services, in accordance with its mandate. The objective of the Agency, according to Article 2 of its founding regulation, is to provide the relevant institutions, bodies, offices of […]
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), the main UN process for the review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), met at the UN Headquarters in New York from 10 – 19 July, 2017. This year, 44 countries presented voluntary national reviews on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Under the theme, “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world”, […]
